Hayabusa
Don’t Bother Trying to Destroy Rubble Pile Asteroids
The asteroids in our Solar System are survivors. They've withstood billions of years of collisions. The surviving asteroids are divided…
The Surface of the Moon is Electrically Charged, Which Could Allow a Hovering Robot to Explore it
A team from MIT has developed a concept for a robotic mission that would use ion beams to levitate on…
Organic Material Found on an Asteroid Sample Returned by Hayabusa 1
Panspermia is an idea that has been around for a long time. It was first mentioned in the 5th century…
Hayabusa 2 is the First Spacecraft to Sample the Inside of an Asteroid
Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is now the first spacecraft to retrieve a subsurface sample from an asteroid. On July 11th,…
Hayabusa’s Target Itokawa Formed 4.6 Billion Years Ago, But Then it Was Smashed Up About 1.5 Billion Years Ago
According to new research by a team of Japanese researchers, samples from the Itokawa asteroid provide new clues to the…
Returned Samples Of Asteroid Itokawa Show Violent 4.5 Billion Year History
Asteroid Itokawa had a sometimes violent 4.5 billion year history, according to samples returned by Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa.
Weekly Space Hangout – Oct. 3, 2014: Islands, Earwigs and Other Mysteries!
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) David Dickinson (Astroguyz.com / @astroguyz) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Brian Koberlein…
Japanese ‘Space Cannon’ On Track For Aiming At An Asteroid: Reports
Watch out, asteroid 1999 JU3: you're being targeted. As several media reports reminded us, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s…
Hayabusa 2 Mission Approved by Japanese Government
[/caption] In 2010, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa completed an exciting although nail-biting mission to the asteroid Itokawa, successfully returning samples…